F29 System Wide Change: ZRAM support for ARM images
by Jan Kurik
= Proposed System Wide Change: ZRAM support for ARM images =
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/ZRAMforARMimages
Owner(s):
* Peter Robinson <pbrobinson at fedoraproject dot org>
Enable ZRAM for swap on ARMv7 and aarch64 pre generated images to
improve performance and reliability on ARM Single Board Computers such
a the Raspberry Pi.
== Detailed description ==
Current Fedora release artifacts for ARM platforms enable a small
amount of swap by default. While this has generally works OK in the
past it can cause a number of issues primarily wearing out SD cards
due to excess use of wear leveling. ZRAM can mitigate this and provide
more memory for ARM SBCs by compressing part of memory and using it as
a swap space. This provides better performance and improved
reliability across this class of device which overall provides a
better end user experience.
== Scope ==
* Proposal owners:
Package and include zram config and systemd units.
* Other developers:
N/A (does not affect developers)
* Release engineering:
#7607 [https://pagure.io/releng/issue/7607]
** List of deliverables:
N/A
* Policies and guidelines:
N/A (No updates to policies and guidelines required)
* Trademark approval:
N/A (not needed for this Change)
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Jan Kuřík
JBoss EAP Program Manager
Red Hat Czech s.r.o., Purkynova 99/71, 612 45 Brno, Czech Republic
5 years, 9 months
Flock Update - ~1 month away
by Brian (bex) Exelbierd
An Update on Flock
* New Sponsor
Some of you may have noticed that the ARM Foundation is now a Gold Sponsor
for Flock.
* Tickets and T-shirts
My tardiness at getting t-shirts ordered is to your BENEFIT. The tickets
that have t-shirts associated with them have been extended until tomorrow,
12 July. Get your order in now if you want to be assured of getting a
T-shirt.
Tickets that don't guarantee a t-shirt or lunch, will be available until 8
August.
* Transportation Details
Transportation Information has been added to the website as provided by
Amit Shah. Thank you!
* Hotel rooms
Hotel rooms are still available. If you need help finding a roommate,
email the list and let me know.
* Funding
All Flock funding is now issued/allocated. The last plane tickets are
being worked on. Everyone who is funded should know by now and should have
all of their details confirmed or in progress.
This year we have funded almost 40 people fully or partially. This has
resulted in, amongst other things over 25 flights and 20 hotel rooms
needing to be managed on top of other conference organizational needs.
* Schedule and CfP
The draft schedule is being worked and the CfP round 2 answers should be
out soon.
* Questions
Direct them to the list or me.
See you at Flock!
regards,
bex
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Brian (bex) Exelbierd | bexelbie(a)redhat.com | bex(a)pobox.com
Fedora Community Action & Impact Coordinator
@bexelbie | http://www.winglemeyer.org
5 years, 9 months
Rawhide Rebase Warning to Package Maintainers
by Ben Cotton
Greetings,
This e-mail is intended to inform you about the upcoming Bugzilla changes
happening on 2018-08-14 (Rawhide bug rebase) and what you need to do,
if anything.
We will be automatically changing the version for most rawhide bugs to
Fedora 29.
This will result in regular bugs reported against rawhide during the Fedora 29
development cycle being changed to version ‘29' instead of their current
assignment, ‘rawhide’. This is to align with the branching of Fedora 29 from
rawhide and to more accurately tell where in the lineage of releases the bug was
last reported.
Note that this procedure does not apply to bugs that are open for the ‘Package
Review’ or 'kernel' components or bugs that have the ''FutureFeature''
or ''Tracking'' keywords
set. These will stay open as rawhide bugs indefinitely.
If you do not want your bugs changed to version ‘29‘, add the ''FutureFeature''
keyword. If you need help changing a large amount of bugs manually, we’d be glad
to help.
The process was re-approved by FESCo https://pagure.io/fesco/issue/1096 .
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Ben Cotton
Fedora Program Manager
TZ=America/Indiana/Indianapolis
5 years, 9 months
F29 Self Contained Change: Update comps to use Python 3
by Ben Cotton
= Proposed self contained change =
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Update_comps_to_use_python3
* Owner:
churchyard
Change the comps groups python-classroom, engineering-and-scientific,
development-libs, cloud-management, font-design, mysql,
robotics-suite, authoring-and-publishing and electronic-lab to use
python3 packages instead of the python2 ones. Remove python-web group.
== Detailed Description ==
As the whole distro moves towards Python 3 as "the default" and with
the upstream EOL of Python 2 set to 2020-01-01, we want to update
comps to use Python 3 packages instead of Python 2 ones.
Here is the list as of 2017-07-09, note that it might slightly change
as long as changes in comps are done prior to this change happening.
=== python-classroom ===
Remove all python2 packages (except python2-virtualenv as long as it
brings the virtualenv command).
=== python-web ===
Remove this group. It has weird stuff and the motivation for it is long lost.
=== engineering-and-scientific ===
Replace python2-matplotlib, python2-scipy, python2-biopython,
python2-cvxopt, python2-networkx, python2-theano with python3
counterparts.
=== development-libs ===
Replace python-devel with python3-devel. Remove python-ldap and
python-ZODB3 (they have python3 ready variants, but so does plenty of
others, we don't see a point of those being in the group).
=== cloud-management ===
Replace python-boto with python3-boto; python-libcloud with
python3-libcloud; python-openstackclient with python3-openstackclient.
=== font-design ===
Replace python-fontMath with python3-fontMath. Remove retired
python-compositor, python-robofab, python-ufo2fdk.
=== mysql ===
Replace python-mysql with python3-mysql.
=== robotics-suite ===
Replace python-bloom, python-catkin_lint, python-catkin_pkg,
python-catkin_tools, python-rosdep, python-rosdistro,
python-rosinstall, python-rosinstall_generator, python-rospkg,
python-vcstools and python-wstool with their python3- counterparts.
=== authoring-and-publishing ===
Replace python-docutils with python3-docutils and python-manuel with
python3-manuel.
=== electronic-lab ===
Replace python-myhdl with python3-myhdl.
=== Not changed: ansible-node ===
ansible-node will '''stay python2 based''' as explained in
[https://pagure.io/fedora-comps/issue/290
pagure.io/fedora-comps/issue/290]
== Scope ==
* Proposal owners:
Submit a PR to [https://pagure.io/fedora-comps/ fedora-comps] with the
described changes.
* Other developers: N/A (not a System Wide Change)
* Release engineering: [https://pagure.io/releng/issue/7622 #7622] (no
impact with Release Engineering)
* Policies and guidelines: N/A (not a System Wide Change)
* Trademark approval: N/A (not needed for this Change)
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Ben Cotton
Fedora Program Manager
TZ=America/Indiana/Indianapolis
5 years, 9 months
Orphaning eclipse-xtext and dependencies
by Aleksandar Kurtakov
eclipse-xtext and its dependencies eclipse-xpand and eclipse-emf-mwe have
just been orphaned. Eclipse SIG has no use of these packages anymore
(despite them being really active upstream), the build system is quite
complicated and they haven't been properly kept upto date lately.
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Alexander Kurtakov
Red Hat Eclipse Team
5 years, 9 months
libicu 62 update with soname bump in rawhide/F29
by Pete Walter
Hi,
I'm updating icu to 62.1 in rawhide and rebuilding anything that links with libicu. We'll also have a compat package with libicu 61 soname, so I don't expect much rawhide breakage: anything that is currently built with libicu 61 but fails to build with libicu 62 should just continue using the compat package.
Thanks,
Pete
5 years, 9 months